National Affairs: The House:

¶Brought startled newshawks scurrying in from the halls when it
rejected with one of the loudest viva voce votes on record, a proposal
by Tennessee's John Ridley Mitchell to abolish Congressmen's mileage
allowance. Having also voted down Congressman Mitchell's amendment
forbidding Congressmen to hire their relatives as clerks, it promptly
passed a $20,357,165 legislative supply bill, up $886,134 from the
current year's appropriation for Congress' upkeep.

¶ Heard Texas' big, blatant Blanton and New York's small,
publicity-loving Dickstein threaten to pound each other to a pulp in a
quarrel on the issue of...